St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-03
LAMAR's STUMBLING BLOCK.
The Prohibitionists Think He Will
Oppose Them in the Supreme
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The ProhibitiOnists Think He Will
Oppose Them in the Supreme
Court.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The temper
ance people are placing very large
stumbling block in the pathway of Mr..
Lamar. 1t is so well known and admit
ted OH all hands that Mr.. Lamar has a
presumption declaratOry statement filed
Upon that supreme court vacancy that
he is watched and studied by all. The
temperance people have ascertained
that the vigorous and popular old gen.
tleman likes his tipple, just a little.
They also make note of the fact that the
supreme court is at present evenly di
vided. The four temperance justices
voted in favor of last years Kansas
case. and the four independent, nom
temperance. drinking justices voted
against it. The probabilities are that
the slight tendency of Mr.. Lamar to
like his tOddy might warp his Judgment
over to the other side. In that event,
Lamar would have the casting vote in
the Kansas, Iowa and Georgia cases
now, pending, and would decide against
the ProhibitioniStS. Thereby hangs the
tale: and it is short and TO the point.
Mr.. Cleveland has been waited upon by
divers and sundTy members of the Wom
ans Christian Temperance union, and
has been obliged to listen to their views.
These women cannot vote, but they
have risen to heights of influence in the
land within the past decade, and they
cannot be ignored. These ladies are to
be followed during the present and sue
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various state prohibition organizations.
The president is to be given to under
stand plainly that there is something of
politics in the matter which it will be
wise for him to consider. In brief, they
will say to him:
Mr. President, we Prohibitionists cannot
elect candidate of our own choosing. We
nominate and show our strength but we can
not elect our man. Bat, Mr.. President. we
can defeat the candidate of either one of the
great parties and elect the other. If the
Democratic party shall nominate 4 man for
the presidency who is openly hostile to us;
a man who has deeply injured us and our
cause we will defeat him. You know, Mr.
President, that we have the strength in New
York and i'll Indiana to do what we claim. 1t
is not an idle boast. We hope the Democratic
party will not nominate man who is especi-
ally Objectionable TO us. But, Mr.. President,
if any man is selected for the supreme bench
who Shall prove to be our enemy; who shall
cast the vote of that high tribunal against US
and thus retard our cause for half century
or more, the president who would deliber-
ately place such a man there. Mr.. President,
would be regarded as our enemy, and he
could not be reelected.
That is the gist of it, as one of them
mentioned the plan to me this after
noon. 1t is to be deliberate effort to
compel the appointment of a man whose
predictions are known to be such that
it would be reasonably certain that his
decision upon the great question would
be favorable to the temperance people.
1t is plainly an effort to coerce a presi-
dent into making an appointment which
he may not want TO make, and to pre-
vent him from making an appointment
which he certainly does want to make.
Ordinarily, such movement would
probably meet with the most hearty dis
approval of the people of the entire
country. But these temperance people
are an earnest body of workers for the
public veal, and the public will be
in the matter. Mrs. Cohen, one of the
leading lights of the union, said this
afternoon:
10 protect my son from the evil influences
Of, the saloon, L would feel justified in
cAerefrg king or emperor. Then why
shpuld any OF our people fear to demand the
Fight, from our servant our president, who
is3one of US? No one has the right to lead
my boy astray, nor 10 place temptations in
hts way. 1 defy all alleged principles which
stand opposed TO the happiness of the home
and the future Of the boys. No one defends
mother for her efforts to raise and educate
her children. Every mother Is commended
for that tender devotion to her young, which
is created as q part of her nature. The
saloon is the enemy of childhood and of
young manhood 1t is the enemy of the
children of every mother. 1t must go in
time. We demand clean and honest un-
tainted supreme court. 1t is our right and
We shall have il.